Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 89

• Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Courage, Scum

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• The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Looks, Landscape

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• You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.127, Penguin

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Congratulations, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.401

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• No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Baby, Witty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Courage, Believe

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• We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Mindfulness, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Be an opener of doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Opportunity, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Religion, Authority

  'Essays' (1841) 'The Over-Soul'

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• Man is a piece of the universe made alive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Pieces, Alive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.322, Harvard University Press

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• Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Wall, Awakening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1409, Delphi Classics

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• We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Destiny, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with annotations edited by Edward Waldo Emerson, and Waldo Emerson Forbes”, p.78, Рипол Классик

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• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Acorns, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taxation, Benefits, Taxes

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• The key to every man is his thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Keys, Defying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.177, Penguin

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• All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2275, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Persons, Indebted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Tubs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intemperance, Vulgarity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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• Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Add, Genius, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Graphic Arts Books

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• The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Advantage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Power, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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